U.S. Supreme Court
Aug. 18, 2009
U.S. Supreme Court Will Take a Hard Look at 'Honest Services' Charge
This fall, not one but two U.S. Supreme Court cases will rest on a 28-word paragraph that members of Congress added at the last minute to a 1988 drug statute. It's driven federal judges - and defense lawyers - to distraction ever since.
Daily Journal Staff Writer WASHINGTON - This fall, not one but two U.S. Supreme Court cases will rest on a 28-word paragraph that members of Congress added at the last minute to a 1988 drug statute. It's driven federal judges - and defense lawyers - to distraction ever since. Upon enactment, the law allowed prosecutors to use the federal wire and mail fraud statutes to charge people with denying "the intangible right of...
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